Printing Spatially-Varying Reflectance
ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), December 2009
Our system represents a target document as a spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF). We have developed BRDF gamut-mapping and halftoning algorithms that approximate this svBRDF with a set of printer inks. Here we show a printed ramp between “silver foil” and “metallic silver” inks, set up to reflect a checkerboard target. The perceived specularity of the surface varies smoothly from left to right.
Abstract
Although real-world surfaces can exhibit significant variation in
materials — glossy, diffuse, metallic, etc. — printers are usually
used to reproduce color or gray-scale images. We propose a complete
system that uses appropriate inks and foils to print documents
with a variety of material properties. Given a set of inks with
known Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs),
our system automatically finds the optimal linear combinations to
approximate the BRDFs of the target documents. Novel gamut-mapping
algorithms preserve the relative glossiness between different
BRDFs, and halftoning is used to produce patterns to be sent to
the printer. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach with
printed samples of a number of measured spatially-varying BRDFs.
Paper
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Citation
Wojciech Matusik, Boris Ajdin, Jinwei Gu, Jason Lawrence, Hendrik P.A. Lensch, Fabio Pellacini, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz.
"Printing Spatially-Varying Reflectance."
ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia) 28(5), December 2009.
BibTeX
@article{Matusik:2009:PSR,
author = "Wojciech Matusik and Boris Ajdin and Jinwei Gu and Jason Lawrence and
Hendrik P.A. Lensch and Fabio Pellacini and Szymon Rusinkiewicz",
title = "Printing Spatially-Varying Reflectance",
journal = "ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
volume = "28",
number = "5"
}